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Author : Edith G. Firth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Town of York, 1793-1815 written by Edith G. Firth and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Benn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554881900
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Historic Fort York, 1793-1993 written by Carl Benn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. Twenty years later, the Fort was the scene of the bloody Battle of York in which the famous American explorer, Zebulon Pike, died leading U.S. forces against the Fort’s outnumbered Canadian, British and Aboriginal defenders. The Americans won this battle – their first major victory in the War of 1812 – and torched the province’s public buildings during a six-day occupation. A year later, British forces retaliated by capturing Washington and burning its government buildings, including the White House. Rebuilt in time to drive off another American attack in 1814, Fort York was maintained through the 1880s to guard against internal unrest and potential American annexation. Even after its defences became obsolete, Fort York continued to serve as barracks and training grounds for the Toronto garrison until the 1930s, when it reopened as a historic site museum. In this book, Carl Benn explores the dramatic roles Fort York played in the frontier war of the 1790s, the birth of Toronto, the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837 and the defence of Canada during the American Civil War, and describes how Toronto’s most important heritage site came to be preserved as a tangible link to Canada’s turbulent military past.
Author : Edith G. Firth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Town of York written by Edith G. Firth and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey L. McNairn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442639164
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Capacity To Judge written by Jeffrey L. McNairn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a deliberative democracy. The Capacity to Judge asks what made widespread public debate about common issues possible; why it came to be seen as desirable, even essential; and how it was integrated into Upper Canada's constitutional and social self-image. Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to Jürgen Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority. He traces how contemporaries grappled with the consequences as they scrutinized parliamentary, republican and radical options for institutionalizing public opinion. The Capacity to Judge concludes with a case study of deliberative democracy in action that serves as a sustained defense of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies.
Author : F. R. Berchem
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1896219136
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860 written by F. R. Berchem and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada's defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen's Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George's day." Handsomely illustrated with the author's drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
Author : Eric Arthur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487516711
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Toronto, No Mean City written by Eric Arthur and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became its bible. This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition. Four new essays were commissioned for this reprint. Christopher Hume, architecture critic and urban affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, addresses the changes to the city since the appearance of the third edition in 1986. Architect and heritage preservation activist Catherine Nasmith assesses the current status of the city's heritage preservation movement. Susan Crean, a freelance writer in Toronto, explores Toronto's vibrant arts scene. Mark Kingwell, professor and cultural commentator, reflects on the development of professional and amateur sports in and around town. Readers will delight in these anecdotal accounts of the city's rich architectural heritage.
Author : Julia Roberts
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858672
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book In Mixed Company written by Julia Roberts and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds � Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white � negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers' accounts, court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial society.
Author : Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459728726
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Riverdale written by Elizabeth Gillan Muir and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of Toronto's Riverdale community, this book narrates the lives of early inhabitants, (reaching as far back as Simcoe's first settlement of the region), the construction boom of 1915, and the waves of immigration that made Riverdale one of Toronto's most diverse areas.
Author : Nancy Butler
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554883180
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Capital Years written by Nancy Butler and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Capital Years is being published to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the opening of the first parliament of Upper Canada. Nine scholars have contributed to this book, which explores the daily life of the inhabitants during the time period 1792-1796 when the area served as the capital of Upper Canada. Their knowledge and expertise give the book depth and breadth of scholarship.
Author : Patrick Brode
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655232
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Sir John Beverley Robinson written by Patrick Brode and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1984-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands. The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion to the Crown, with little room for dissent. As a true loyalist son, educated by John Strachan, Robinson attempted to steer Upper Canada toward emulation of what he perceived to be Britain’s ideal aristocratic society. As a young ensign in the York militia, he defended his sovereign at Queenston Heights, and as acting attorney-general he prosecuted traitors who threatened to undermine the colony. Later, as attorney-general and de facto leader of the assembly during the 1820s, he tried to mould the government to the British form. But factors he never understood—the influence of American democracy and liberalism in the Colonial Office—ensured that Upper Canada would never be a ‘new Albion.’ Robinson was appointed chief justice in 1829, and his judicial career spanned thirty-three years, during which he insisted the courts were subservient to the legislature and established precedents declaring their role should be limited to the enforcement of existing laws, with no independent creative function. His long service on the bench represented both a preservation and a strengthening of the British tradition in Canadian law. In this biography, early Toronto comes alive through the eyes of a powerful man—firm in his beliefs, attractive to women, respected by his fellows—who sought to mould society to his own ideals. For historians, lawyers, and students of jurisprudence who seek an understanding of the roots of legal practice in nineteenth-century Ontario, it is essential reading. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Image of "The Three Robinson Sisters" (Emily, Augusta, and Louisa) by George Theodore Berthon, 1846 on page XV removed at the request of the rights holder.
Author : F.R. (Hamish) Berchem
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554883601
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860 written by F.R. (Hamish) Berchem and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada's defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen's Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George's day." Handsomely illustrated with the author's drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
Author : Janice Nickerson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459705955
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book York's Sacrifice written by Janice Nickerson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: York's Sacrifice profiles 39 men who lost their lives during the War of 1812. The militia's contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don't know how many Upper Canadian militia men died defending their home.
Author : Robert Malcomson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865165
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 written by Robert Malcomson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of 1812 was an extremely complicated war motivated by British seizures of American vessels and goods, American desire to expand into Canada, and impressment of American sailors into the British Navy. However, these are merely the immediate causes. To fully understand the War of 1812, one must delve deeper into history. This book does just that, as it covers the period leading up to the war (1803-1812) and the events of the war itself (1812-1815) through the use of a dictionary consisting of more than 1,400 cross-referenced entries covering descriptions of engagements, ships, weaponry, the compositions of regiments, significant political and military figures, and a full list of key places, issues and terms. Also included are 21 photographs, 6 maps, a chronology of events, an introductory essay, and a comprehensive bibliography, subdivided by topic and fully annotated.
Author : Robert Malcomson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870045
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of the War of 1812 written by Robert Malcomson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of 1812 was an extremely complicated war motivated by British seizures of American vessels and goods, American desire to expand into Canada, and impressment of American sailors into the British Navy. However, these are merely the immediate causes. To fully understand the War of 1812, one must delve deeper into history. This book does just that, as it covers the period leading up to the war (1803-1812) and the events of the war itself (1812-1815) through the use of a dictionary consisting of more than 1,400 cross-referenced entries covering descriptions of engagements, ships, weaponry, the compositions of regiments, significant political and military figures, and a full list of key places, issues and terms. Also included are a chronology of events, an introductory essay, and a comprehensive bibliography, subdivided by topic and fully annotated.
Author : David Allan Hamer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231066204
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)
Download or read book New Towns in the New World written by David Allan Hamer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamer has written a broad, comparative overview of the evolution of British-derived urban traditions in four former colonies: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Author : Carl Benn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459738314
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Carl Benn's Stories of Canada's Past 2-Book Bundle written by Carl Benn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military historian Carl Benn explores the rich history of our nation with two absorbing stories of bravery in this special two-book bundle. Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885 Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen becuase of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part of the Canadian Voyageur Contingent, which transported British troops on a fleet of whaleboats through the Nile’s treacherous cataracts in the hard campaigning of the Sudan War. Historic Fort York, 1793-1993 Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. In this book, Carl Benn explores the dramatic roles Fort York played in the frontier war of the 1790s, the birth of Toronto, the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837 and the defence of Canada during the American Civil War, and describes how Toronto’s most important heritage site came to be preserved as a tangible link to Canada’s turbulent military past.
Author : Jennifer L. Bonnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442612258
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Don written by Jennifer L. Bonnell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
